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Sean Roy Parker

Ilkeston, East Mids
Visual artist, writer, gardener living and working in artist-led housing project The Field in Derbyshire.

Sean Roy Parker is a visual artist, writer, gardener and fermentation enthusiast based at The Field, an experimental rural arts residency and co-living project near Ilkeston, Derbyshire. He practises slow, low-tech crafts and food preservation with consumer waste and natural abundances, and shares extensively through labour exchange, favours and artswaps. In his ongoing project Fermental Health he writes about and leads workshops on the lifecycle of materials, complexities of interspecies responsibility, and collaborative problem-solving through the lens of food justice. Roy is impatiently anticipating the post-capitalist transition.

His writing has been published in WeedsFeed by Sandra Kosorotova for Publics, Helsinki (Finland), Tender Order by Jade Monserrat for TOMA, Southend (UK), and Worry, Collect, Fold (translated by Max Weinland) for Kunstverein Luneburg (Germany). He has delivered public research projects on fermenting with microbes for Liverpool Biennial (UK), anarchist solidarity with peasant farmers in Valencia at Pols (Spain), and was most recently artist-gardener at Kreenholm Plants in Narva (Estonia). Roy was a Wysing Arts Centre Resident 2023-24, and is working towards his first poetry collection, In Digestion, due for publication 2024 with Monitor Books (London).

 

 

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The Axis Fellowship 2024: Recipients Announced!

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Fellowship 2024

The 2024 Axis Fellowship brought together artists Uma Breakdown, Asuf Ishaq, Hannah Leighton-Boyce and Sean Roy Parker for a year of making, reflection and connection. From selection through to mentoring and curated projects, this archive captures their journey and the ideas that shaped it.

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A Future Without Growth

By Sean Roy Parker

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